Teacher Quotes

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.